Topic Day Scaling AI: From pilot to performance

AI scaling from the overall perspective of transformation

On July 9, 2026 we invite you to together with our member SAS to the Topic Day Scaling AI to Heidelberg. The focus will be on the scaling of artificial intelligence in the insurance industry from an overall transformation perspective.

The discussion focuses on how insurance companies set priorities, embed AI within their organizational structures, and make decisions under conditions of uncertainty. The goal is to demonstrate how AI can be systematically scaled up from individual pilot projects to company-wide implementation—while delivering measurable results. After all, the industry has moved beyond the phase of isolated experiments. The focus now is on prioritizing AI as a mandatory priority, integrating it systematically, and translating it into sustainable value creation.

Among other things, there are Speakers represented by the following companies:
– AI Risk
– ARAG
– Fraport
– HUK-COBURG
– R+V
– SAS
– W&W Group

Why this Topic Day is important now

The discussion is shifting: It’s no longer „Where do we launch a pilot?“ but „Where do we achieve performance?“ Insurance companies face the challenge of strategically consolidating AI, embedding it within their organizations, and making it economically effective. Scaling AI involves more than just technology—it involves prioritization, governance, architecture, and consistent, broad-based implementation. This Topic Day will illustrate what this path might look like by exploring strategic prioritization, organizational integration, and concrete examples of scaling.

What you can expect

- Strategic classification: Which priorities are decisive now?
- Governance & organization: How is AI structurally anchored?
- Practical scaling cases: How does the transition from pilot to performance succeed?
- Exchange at decision-making and program level

The focus is not on isolated use cases, but on the question of how AI can have a company-wide impact - technologically, organizationally and economically.

Target group: The event is expressly aimed only at employees of InsurLab Germany member companies or by special invitation from SAS or InsurLab. The event is particularly interesting for board members and management in the insurance industry, IT and data managers with a mandate to scale AI, program and transformation managers in the context of AI scaling, executives from data, automation and innovation areas as well as decision-makers who no longer want to test AI but want to scale it in a structured way.

Note:

After the Topic Day, together with SAS as host, we invite you to the Summer Special. If you would also like to be there, please note that a Separate registration required is. The following also apply to the Summer Special Own conditions of participation and limited contingents.

Travel Information

For more detailed information about the location and travel arrangements, please refer to the document linked below.

The agenda below reflects the current status; we reserve the right to make changes, and the individual tracks in particular will be further developed over time—it’s worth checking back regularly.

Hourly Schedule

10:30 - 11:30
Arrive
11:30 - 11:45
Opening
InsurLab Germany & SAS
11:50 - 12:15
Keynote: "The Strategic Goal of AI: How to Build Intelligence Capital"
Simon Torrance (Founder and CEO of AI Risk)
12:20 - 12:40
Keynote: "From Models to Machines: How Insurers Scale AI to Drive Enterprise Performance"
Dr. Iain Brown (Global Head of AI & Data Science at SAS)
12:45 - 13:05
Executive Talk: "ARAG's AI Journey"
Hanno Petersen (Executive Board Member of ARAG SE, responsible for IT and Operations)
13:10 - 13:30
Keynote: "Scaling AI Across the Enterprise – Platform, Central Unit, and Hub-and-Spoke as Keys to Success"
Dr. Michael Zimmer (Chief Data & AI Officer at the W&W Group)
13:30 - 14:00
Break
14:00 - 16:00
Track 1: AI at Scale: Real-World Examples, Impact, and Lessons Learned 👇
14:00 - 14:20
Track 1: AI-Driven Automation—Between Hype, Reality, and Sustainable Scaling
Anastasia Golz (Head of Business Process Automation at HUK-COBURG)
14:20 - 14:40
Track 1: From Strategy to Implementation: Building an Integrated AI Legal Support Assistant in 12 Months
Cedric Klein (Manager of Strategic Business Development at ÖRAG Rechtsschutzversicherungs-AG) & Victor Tremols (Head of Data Analytics (AI/BI) Services at Versicherungskammer Bayern)
14:40 - 15:00
Track 1: The Use of AI in the Claims Process: A Critical Interim Assessment of Real-World Use Cases and an Outlook on the Customer-Centric Interaction Between AI Agents and Human Employees
Stephanie Friedrich (Director of Consulting for Insurance and Financial Services at Arvato Systems)
15:00 - 15:20
Track 1: An Irrelevant Business Model? The Role of AI in the Broker-Insurer Relationship
Thorben Schlätzer (CEO of dreifach.ai)
15:20 - 16:00
Track 1: Panel Discussion - From Pilot to Product: AI at Scale in Insurance Practice
Nele Wollert (CSO at muffintech), Dr. Arne Barinka (Member of the Executive Board at RheinLand Versicherungen and Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board at InsurLab Germany), Philip Nag (CEO of inca) & Eberhard Riesenkampff (Founder of nuclicore), Vitali Kurnatowski (AXA)
14:00 - 16:00
Track 2: AI at Scale: Regulation, Risk, and Governance 👇
14:00 - 14:20
Track 2: From Pilot to Governed AI: The Legal Framework Insurers Really Need Right Now
Thomas Fischer (Partner at ASD)
14:20 - 14:40
Track 2: Regulatory Intelligence – The Future GRC Operating Model for Insurers
Tobias Schuster (Senior Manager, Technology & Digital at Forvis Mazars), Tobias Hammermann (Founder of Durava)
14:40 - 15:00
Track 2: Putting AI Governance into Practice: Practical Insights from a Major Bank
Dr. Armin Mokhtarian (Executive Consultant at CGI)
15:00 - 15:20
Track 2: Scaling AI through Testing: How Insurers Use Systematic AI QA and Governance to Move from Pilots to Enterprise Deployment
Julian Riebartsch (CEO and Co-Founder of Calvin Risk) and Biggy Nguyen (Head of Growth and Customer Engagement at Noimos)
15:20 - 15:40
Track 2: Automating Trust: How AI Compliance Is Shifting from a Hindrance to a Scaling Factor
Tobias Weitzel (Head of Confora Labs), VHV
15:40 - 16:00
Track 2: Responsibility as a Competitive Advantage
Dr. Frank Esselmann (Head of the Market Division at the Corporate Digital Responsibility Office of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Digitalization (BMJV)) and Leonhard Henke (Technical Director for CDR and AI Governance at the Corporate Digital Responsibility (CDR) Initiative of the BMJV)
14:00 - 16:00
Track 3: AI at Scale: Strategy, Operating Models & Transformation 👇
14:00 - 14:20
Track 3: Scaling AI in Insurance: Current State, Areas for Action, and Potential
Dr. Philipp Johannes Nolte (Managing Director of InsurLab) and Leila Kehl (Manager of AI Scaling & Enablement at InsurLab Germany)
14:20 - 14:40
Track 3: General Purpose Technology - AI: Between Hype and Productivity – Where Do We Really Stand?
Lukas Küpper (Managing IT Consultant, Senacor Technologies)
14:40 - 15:00
Track 3: How We’re Preparing R+V for the Deployment of Agentic AI: Insights & Initial Findings
Jacqueline-Helena Strohschen (Strategic Innovation & AI Advisor in Corporate Development at R+V Insurance)
15:00 - 15:20
Track 3: Bridging the Gap Between Strategy and Workforce Reality
Philipp Bender (Partner at Eraneos Strategy) & Anton Dahmen (Senior Manager at Eraneos Strategy)
15:20 - 15:40
Track 3: Scaling AI in Practice: From Experiment to Effective Leadership at AOK PLUS Service GmbH
Christoph Schönfelder (Co-Founder & Chief Visionary Officer at MONDAY.ROCKS) & Frank Schubert (Head of the Healthcare Partners Division at AOK PLUS)
15:40 - 16:00
Track 3: How Insurers Align AI Initiatives with Value Drivers
Marcel Ballbach (Controller at R+V)
14:00 - 16:00
Track 4: AI at Scale: Engineering, Platforms & Data 👇
14:00 - 14:20
Track 4: The Illusion of AI at Scale: Why a Lack of Platform and Data Sovereignty Is Holding Back Your AI Performance
Enrico Gabriele (Head of Data & AI Consulting, Schwarz Digits)
14:20 - 14:40
Track 4: Green Light for AI at Scale: Governance by Design in Enterprise AI Platforms
Tamara Fischer (Principal Data Scientist at SAS)
14:40 - 15:00
Track 4: Scaling AI in Service and Sales: Platform Logic, Integration, and Value Creation Through the Collaboration of BSI Software and riskine
Sebastian Pitzler (Executive Vice President of AI, BSI Software), Jan Philipp Sorg (Account Director, BSI Software)
15:00 - 15:20
Track 4: Production Instead of Demos: What GenAI Systems Need Before They're Ready for Production.
Tim Cares (AI Engineer, Wertgarantie), Thomas Butscher (Head of Application Development CE, Wertgarantie)
15:20 - 15:40
Track 4: Five Ways to Sabotage Your GPT Project – Insights from Provinzial and ÖRAG
Dr. Robert Meißner (AI software developer at Provinzial), Peter Paschke (product manager at ÖRAG/DA Group)
15:40 - 16:00
Track 4: AI-powered Data Migration in Insurance IT: How an AI Assistant Significantly Reduces Analysis and Mapping Efforts in Migration Projects
Lars Stüber (Senior Data Consultant at adesso)
14:00 - 16:00
Track 5: English-Language Track: Part 1: AI at Scale: Strategy, Operating Models & Transformation, Part 2: AI at Scale: Engineering, Platforms & Data 👇
14:00 - 15:00
Track 5: AI at Scale - How Agentic AI Delivers the Highest Return on Investment
Simon Torrance (Founder and CEO of AI Risk)
15:00 - 15:40
Track 5: Scaling AI in Production – From Human Agents to Digital Agents in Business Services
Antonio Di Marzo (Head of Applied AI EU | Enterprise Agentic Transformation at EPAM) & Frank Schürken (Senior Director, Account Management at EPAM)
15:40 - 16:00
Track 5: AI Distribution - What is the signal behind the noise?
Robin Diligent (Co-founder and CEO of WaniWani)
16:00 - 16:30
Break
16:30 - 16:45
Summary & Key Takeaways from the Tracks
16:50 - 17:10
Keynote: "AI@Fraport – Making Data Take Flight!"
Dr. Rolf Felkel (Senior Vice President of Applications and Partner Management at Fraport AG)
17:15 - 17:35
Keynote
Special Guest
17:40 - 17:55
Final Wrap-up
Katharina Stecher (CEO of GVV Versicherungen and board member of InsurLab Germany)
18:00
End of the event and transition to the Summer Special

The registration to this event is exclusively possible for Employees of InsurLab Germany member companies or those invited specifically by SAS or InsurLab It is an On-site event. Above, you'll find more detailed information about who this event is specifically intended for. If the criteria listed above apply to you, you can register here:

I would like to register

Of course, it can happen that one is prevented despite interest. Therefore a request: If you have registered for one of our events but are unable to attend, please cancel as early as possible by sending an e-mail to connect@insurlab-germany.com. In this way we can further optimize our planning, allow interested parties to participate and save costs for catering etc. We thank you for your understanding!

Film and sound recordings as well as photos will be taken at the event. By registering for the event, you agree to their use, including at a later date.

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Date
Jul 09 2026
Time
11:30 a.m. – 5:55 p.m.
Location
SAS Institute GmbH
SAS Institute GmbH
Villa7 / SAS Executive Briefing Center, Stiftweg 1, 69118 Heidelberg
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Topic Day Scaling AI: From pilot to performance

Date
Jul 09 2026
Time
11:30 a.m. – 5:55 p.m.
Location
SAS Institute GmbH
SAS Institute GmbH
Villa7 / SAS Executive Briefing Center, Stiftweg 1, 69118 Heidelberg
Category

AI scaling from the overall perspective of transformation

On July 9, 2026 we invite you to together with our member SAS to the Topic Day Scaling AI to Heidelberg. The focus will be on the scaling of artificial intelligence in the insurance industry from an overall transformation perspective.

The discussion focuses on how insurance companies set priorities, embed AI within their organizational structures, and make decisions under conditions of uncertainty. The goal is to demonstrate how AI can be systematically scaled up from individual pilot projects to company-wide implementation—while delivering measurable results. After all, the industry has moved beyond the phase of isolated experiments. The focus now is on prioritizing AI as a mandatory priority, integrating it systematically, and translating it into sustainable value creation.

Among other things, there are Speakers represented by the following companies:
– AI Risk
– ARAG
– Fraport
– HUK-COBURG
– R+V
– SAS
– W&W Group

Why this Topic Day is important now

The discussion is shifting: It’s no longer „Where do we launch a pilot?“ but „Where do we achieve performance?“ Insurance companies face the challenge of strategically consolidating AI, embedding it within their organizations, and making it economically effective. Scaling AI involves more than just technology—it involves prioritization, governance, architecture, and consistent, broad-based implementation. This Topic Day will illustrate what this path might look like by exploring strategic prioritization, organizational integration, and concrete examples of scaling.

What you can expect

- Strategic classification: Which priorities are decisive now?
- Governance & organization: How is AI structurally anchored?
- Practical scaling cases: How does the transition from pilot to performance succeed?
- Exchange at decision-making and program level

The focus is not on isolated use cases, but on the question of how AI can have a company-wide impact - technologically, organizationally and economically.

Target group: The event is expressly aimed only at employees of InsurLab Germany member companies or by special invitation from SAS or InsurLab. The event is particularly interesting for board members and management in the insurance industry, IT and data managers with a mandate to scale AI, program and transformation managers in the context of AI scaling, executives from data, automation and innovation areas as well as decision-makers who no longer want to test AI but want to scale it in a structured way.

Note:

After the Topic Day, together with SAS as host, we invite you to the Summer Special. If you would also like to be there, please note that a Separate registration required is. The following also apply to the Summer Special Own conditions of participation and limited contingents.

Travel Information

For more detailed information about the location and travel arrangements, please refer to the document linked below.

The agenda below reflects the current status; we reserve the right to make changes, and the individual tracks in particular will be further developed over time—it’s worth checking back regularly.

Hourly Schedule

10:30 - 11:30
Arrive
11:30 - 11:45
Opening
InsurLab Germany & SAS
11:50 - 12:15
Keynote: "The Strategic Goal of AI: How to Build Intelligence Capital"
Simon Torrance (Founder and CEO of AI Risk)
12:20 - 12:40
Keynote: "From Models to Machines: How Insurers Scale AI to Drive Enterprise Performance"
Dr. Iain Brown (Global Head of AI & Data Science at SAS)
12:45 - 13:05
Executive Talk: "ARAG's AI Journey"
Hanno Petersen (Executive Board Member of ARAG SE, responsible for IT and Operations)
13:10 - 13:30
Keynote: "Scaling AI Across the Enterprise – Platform, Central Unit, and Hub-and-Spoke as Keys to Success"
Dr. Michael Zimmer (Chief Data & AI Officer at the W&W Group)
13:30 - 14:00
Break
14:00 - 16:00
Track 1: AI at Scale: Real-World Examples, Impact, and Lessons Learned 👇
14:00 - 14:20
Track 1: AI-Driven Automation—Between Hype, Reality, and Sustainable Scaling
Anastasia Golz (Head of Business Process Automation at HUK-COBURG)
14:20 - 14:40
Track 1: From Strategy to Implementation: Building an Integrated AI Legal Support Assistant in 12 Months
Cedric Klein (Manager of Strategic Business Development at ÖRAG Rechtsschutzversicherungs-AG) & Victor Tremols (Head of Data Analytics (AI/BI) Services at Versicherungskammer Bayern)
14:40 - 15:00
Track 1: The Use of AI in the Claims Process: A Critical Interim Assessment of Real-World Use Cases and an Outlook on the Customer-Centric Interaction Between AI Agents and Human Employees
Stephanie Friedrich (Director of Consulting for Insurance and Financial Services at Arvato Systems)
15:00 - 15:20
Track 1: An Irrelevant Business Model? The Role of AI in the Broker-Insurer Relationship
Thorben Schlätzer (CEO of dreifach.ai)
15:20 - 16:00
Track 1: Panel Discussion - From Pilot to Product: AI at Scale in Insurance Practice
Nele Wollert (CSO at muffintech), Dr. Arne Barinka (Member of the Executive Board at RheinLand Versicherungen and Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board at InsurLab Germany), Philip Nag (CEO of inca) & Eberhard Riesenkampff (Founder of nuclicore), Vitali Kurnatowski (AXA)
14:00 - 16:00
Track 2: AI at Scale: Regulation, Risk, and Governance 👇
14:00 - 14:20
Track 2: From Pilot to Governed AI: The Legal Framework Insurers Really Need Right Now
Thomas Fischer (Partner at ASD)
14:20 - 14:40
Track 2: Regulatory Intelligence – The Future GRC Operating Model for Insurers
Tobias Schuster (Senior Manager, Technology & Digital at Forvis Mazars), Tobias Hammermann (Founder of Durava)
14:40 - 15:00
Track 2: Putting AI Governance into Practice: Practical Insights from a Major Bank
Dr. Armin Mokhtarian (Executive Consultant at CGI)
15:00 - 15:20
Track 2: Scaling AI through Testing: How Insurers Use Systematic AI QA and Governance to Move from Pilots to Enterprise Deployment
Julian Riebartsch (CEO and Co-Founder of Calvin Risk) and Biggy Nguyen (Head of Growth and Customer Engagement at Noimos)
15:20 - 15:40
Track 2: Automating Trust: How AI Compliance Is Shifting from a Hindrance to a Scaling Factor
Tobias Weitzel (Head of Confora Labs), VHV
15:40 - 16:00
Track 2: Responsibility as a Competitive Advantage
Dr. Frank Esselmann (Head of the Market Division at the Corporate Digital Responsibility Office of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Digitalization (BMJV)) and Leonhard Henke (Technical Director for CDR and AI Governance at the Corporate Digital Responsibility (CDR) Initiative of the BMJV)
14:00 - 16:00
Track 3: AI at Scale: Strategy, Operating Models & Transformation 👇
14:00 - 14:20
Track 3: Scaling AI in Insurance: Current State, Areas for Action, and Potential
Dr. Philipp Johannes Nolte (Managing Director of InsurLab) and Leila Kehl (Manager of AI Scaling & Enablement at InsurLab Germany)
14:20 - 14:40
Track 3: General Purpose Technology - AI: Between Hype and Productivity – Where Do We Really Stand?
Lukas Küpper (Managing IT Consultant, Senacor Technologies)
14:40 - 15:00
Track 3: How We’re Preparing R+V for the Deployment of Agentic AI: Insights & Initial Findings
Jacqueline-Helena Strohschen (Strategic Innovation & AI Advisor in Corporate Development at R+V Insurance)
15:00 - 15:20
Track 3: Bridging the Gap Between Strategy and Workforce Reality
Philipp Bender (Partner at Eraneos Strategy) & Anton Dahmen (Senior Manager at Eraneos Strategy)
15:20 - 15:40
Track 3: Scaling AI in Practice: From Experiment to Effective Leadership at AOK PLUS Service GmbH
Christoph Schönfelder (Co-Founder & Chief Visionary Officer at MONDAY.ROCKS) & Frank Schubert (Head of the Healthcare Partners Division at AOK PLUS)
15:40 - 16:00
Track 3: How Insurers Align AI Initiatives with Value Drivers
Marcel Ballbach (Controller at R+V)
14:00 - 16:00
Track 4: AI at Scale: Engineering, Platforms & Data 👇
14:00 - 14:20
Track 4: The Illusion of AI at Scale: Why a Lack of Platform and Data Sovereignty Is Holding Back Your AI Performance
Enrico Gabriele (Head of Data & AI Consulting, Schwarz Digits)
14:20 - 14:40
Track 4: Green Light for AI at Scale: Governance by Design in Enterprise AI Platforms
Tamara Fischer (Principal Data Scientist at SAS)
14:40 - 15:00
Track 4: Scaling AI in Service and Sales: Platform Logic, Integration, and Value Creation Through the Collaboration of BSI Software and riskine
Sebastian Pitzler (Executive Vice President of AI, BSI Software), Jan Philipp Sorg (Account Director, BSI Software)
15:00 - 15:20
Track 4: Production Instead of Demos: What GenAI Systems Need Before They're Ready for Production.
Tim Cares (AI Engineer, Wertgarantie), Thomas Butscher (Head of Application Development CE, Wertgarantie)
15:20 - 15:40
Track 4: Five Ways to Sabotage Your GPT Project – Insights from Provinzial and ÖRAG
Dr. Robert Meißner (AI software developer at Provinzial), Peter Paschke (product manager at ÖRAG/DA Group)
15:40 - 16:00
Track 4: AI-powered Data Migration in Insurance IT: How an AI Assistant Significantly Reduces Analysis and Mapping Efforts in Migration Projects
Lars Stüber (Senior Data Consultant at adesso)
14:00 - 16:00
Track 5: English-Language Track: Part 1: AI at Scale: Strategy, Operating Models & Transformation, Part 2: AI at Scale: Engineering, Platforms & Data 👇
14:00 - 15:00
Track 5: AI at Scale - How Agentic AI Delivers the Highest Return on Investment
Simon Torrance (Founder and CEO of AI Risk)
15:00 - 15:40
Track 5: Scaling AI in Production – From Human Agents to Digital Agents in Business Services
Antonio Di Marzo (Head of Applied AI EU | Enterprise Agentic Transformation at EPAM) & Frank Schürken (Senior Director, Account Management at EPAM)
15:40 - 16:00
Track 5: AI Distribution - What is the signal behind the noise?
Robin Diligent (Co-founder and CEO of WaniWani)
16:00 - 16:30
Break
16:30 - 16:45
Summary & Key Takeaways from the Tracks
16:50 - 17:10
Keynote: "AI@Fraport – Making Data Take Flight!"
Dr. Rolf Felkel (Senior Vice President of Applications and Partner Management at Fraport AG)
17:15 - 17:35
Keynote
Special Guest
17:40 - 17:55
Final Wrap-up
Katharina Stecher (CEO of GVV Versicherungen and board member of InsurLab Germany)
18:00
End of the event and transition to the Summer Special

The registration to this event is exclusively possible for Employees of InsurLab Germany member companies or those invited specifically by SAS or InsurLab It is an On-site event. Above, you'll find more detailed information about who this event is specifically intended for. If the criteria listed above apply to you, you can register here:

I would like to register

Of course, it can happen that one is prevented despite interest. Therefore a request: If you have registered for one of our events but are unable to attend, please cancel as early as possible by sending an e-mail to connect@insurlab-germany.com. In this way we can further optimize our planning, allow interested parties to participate and save costs for catering etc. We thank you for your understanding!

Film and sound recordings as well as photos will be taken at the event. By registering for the event, you agree to their use, including at a later date.

Speakers

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